Soopafly readies "Best Kept Secret" for fall 2011

It's not like Soopafly was hidden under a bunch of stones within the last years, as he was affiliated with several projects such as Westurn Union aka Dubb Union, but you could argue that he was very silent on a solo tip. So the title of his upcoming album "Best Kept Secret" seems more than appropriate, considering that he never got the credit he deserved for his production and delivery.

Though hist last record "Bangin West Coast" was not really astonishing to me, I will not dare to miss a new Soopafly song when it drops. So today I am happy to announce that Soopafly is really back at it! One of the songs featured on his album will be the amazing Terrace Martin collaboration "G-Funk Martian", which is just wonderful music. Music that we need. No surprise that Terrace had his hands on it. But this is a real banger, Soopafly isn't even cussing, he just giving you the motivation to vibe. So check out "G-Funk Martian" ft. Terrace Martin.



The boys from dubcnn weren't sleeping neither, so they exclusively dropped the other leaked song, named like the album "Best Kept Secret". This song features Goldie Loc, Kokane and Maylay. Now if that ain't west coast...

Check "Best Kept Secret" feat. Goldie Loc, Kokane and Maylay:

Get WC's new album today!

Former Low Profile, Maad Circle and Westside Connection member WC is dropping his fourth solo effort called "Revenge Of The Barracuda". The west coast veteran teamed up with with his Lench Mob affiliates Ice Cube & Maylay, Tha Dogg Pound, Kokane, Soopafly, Bad Lucc & Juvenile for this presumably banging gangsta rap album. Check the tracklist below.

01. Revenge Of The Barracuda
02. You Know Me Ft. Maylay & Ice Cube
03. Reality Show
04. What’s Good Ft. Kokane
05. Walking In My Taylors
06. That’s What I’m Talking About
07. Sticking To The Script Ft. Daz, Kurupt, Bad Lucc And Soopafly
08. 100% Legit
09. D Boy
10. Hustla Ft. Juvenile
11. The Spot Ft. Maylay
12. Dub C

You can always count on WC if you're looking for that good old west coast rap shit. So please support one of the last true spitters from the golden age of west coast rap and grab "Revenge Of The Barracuda" today.

E-40 - My Lil Grimey Nigga (Video) - Overtime Shift & Graveyard Shift tracklist

Holy shit, this came outta nowhere! E-40 is back with his new single AND video "My Lil Grimey Nigga" to gear up his two (!) upcoming solo albums "Revenue Retrievin: Overtime Shift" and "Revenue Retrievin: Graveyard Shift".

As to that, he chose the same formula as for his last year's video smasher "Weed Man", since Federation's band member Stressmatic is featured on the hook once again. E-40 proves that he keeps it real with this one, so please support tha godfather of the bay and buy the double record on March 29th. Check the video AND the tracklist for both albums below.



Tracklist:

Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift
1. Mr. Flamboyant 2K11
2. Drugs (feat. B-Legit)
3. Hillside
4. Gunz
5. Slow It Down (feat. J. Stalin & Decadez)
6. Me & My Bitch
7. Beastin
8. My Money Straight (feat. Guce & Black C (of RBL Posse))
9. I Love My Momma (feat. R.O.D. & Mic Conn)
10. I Am Your (feat. Droop-E & Laroo T.H.H.)
11. In The Morning (feat. Beeda Weeda & Work Dirty (of DB'z))
12. Punkin' Em Out
13. Born In The Struggle (feat. Dr. Cornell West & Mike Marshall)
14. Fuck Em'
15. Rear View Mirror (feat. B-Legit & Stressmatic)
16. Lookin' Back (feat. Devin The Dude)
17. Stay Gone
18. Movin' Organized Business (M.O.B.)
19. Tired Of Sellin Yola
20. Click About It (feat. The Click, Harm (of Da Rich), & Bosko)

Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift
1. Barbarian
2. Serious (feat. T-Pain)
3. Graveyard Shift (feat. Cousin Fik & Choose Up Cheese)
4. My Lil Grimey Nigga
5. Yankin' (feat. Hot (of DB'z) & Laroo T.H.H.)
6. Concrete
7. Club On Lock (feat. Matt Blaque & Laroo T.H.H.)
8. Fried (feat. Tech N9ne & Marty James)
9. Back & Forth (feat. Turf Talk, Cousin Fik, & Stresmatic)
10. Bad Bitch (feat. Stressmatic & Droop-E)
11. Takin 'Em Back
12. My Shit Bang
13. The Streets Don't Love Nobody (feat. Turf Talk & DB Tha General)
14. 43 (feat. B-Legit)
15. That Candy Paint (feat. Bun B & Slim Thug)
16. E Forty
17. Trapped (feat. Mike Marshall)
18. Spooky (feat. Bosko)
19. Don't Try This At Home (feat. Philthy Rich & Stevie Joe)
20. Tuff Times (feat. Bosko & Netta B)

These two albums guarantee to bang in your trunk and to hit you up with some real lyrics. Beats will be produced by Droop-E, Rick Rock, Daywalk and more. Once again: Go get these records on March, 29.

MC Eiht asks "Where U Goin 2" on new single

Compton's original MC Eiht is back with another single from his upcoming album "Which Way Iz West" due out anytime this spring. The track is called "Where U Goin 2" and the beat got laced by DJ Premier's protege Brenk aka. Brenk Sinatra. Check the video below!

Keep It Gangsta - live on Saturday!

After a small break I'm back today and glad to announce my involvement in this Saturday's "The Breaks". The Breaks is a one hour radio show on the Bielefeld, Germany located radio station Hertz 87.9, broadcasting every Saturday on 22:00 CET (13:00 PST). You can usually expect the finest hip-hop and funk music, uncut.

I will be handling this week's special feature called Keep It Gangsta. 15 songs straight gangsta rap, some undisputed classics and some maybe already forgotten masterpieces will be waiting on you! You can listen to Hertz 87.9 via internet live-stream.
Tune in tomorrow at 22:00 (or whatever timezone you're in) by clicking here or just click on the stream button in my sidebar.

Tracklist: Keep It Gangsta (18.12.2010)

01: Att Will - Wreck' Em ft. Kronic & Ice-K
02: Dr. Dre - Bang Bang ft. Knoc-Turn'al & Hittman
03: 2Pac - Heartz Of Men
04: Kam - Way'a Life
05: Snoop Dogg - Tha Shiznit
06: Kurupt - I Call Shots ft. Roscoe
07: MC Eiht - Compton Cyco
08: Murder Squad - Knock On Wood (Remix) ft. LV, B.G. Knocc Out, Dre'sta & Jayo Felony
09: Shorty K, Lil J, Lil Tip & Crooked I - Ashes To Ashes
10: Westside Connection - Potential Victims
11: Woss Ness - Ballers, Hustlers, G's and Macks
12: Tha Hood Mob - The Real Hood
13: Tha Dogg Pound - Anybody Killa ft. The Game
14: E-40 - Sinister Mob ft. Nate Dogg
15: Guce - Bang

I hope you will enjoy the music!

E-40 is a workaholic with two new albums

Just got this from dude's facebook account:

E-40 plans on releasing two new parts of his successful "Revenue Retrievin" albums on February 8th, 2011! The new ones will be entitled "Overtime Shift" and "Graveyard Shift" (as you can see on the artwork above) as a follow-up to this year's "Day Shift" and "Night Shift".

I'm not sure if I like the idea of putting it out as another two "Revenue Retrievin" albums, I think he could be more creative with that - but as long as the music is slapping in the manner of Day & Night Shift I'm 100% down with it!
Support real artists and stay tuned for more information soon!

Si-Chill

New Ice Cube album and videos

Los Angeles rap veteran and Hollywood actor Ice Cube just released his newest record "I Am The West" on Lench Mob Records on September 28th. The album features artists such as WC, Maylay, Jayo Felony and Ice Cube's sons Doughboy and OMG. "I Am The West" debuted on #22 on the Billboard top 200 which is pretty decent for an independent release in 2010.

Although its promising title, this album was a bit of a letdown to me due to its large number of weirdly short songs, crudities with the sound, in the tracklist and order. I will post a write-up on it later this month. As for now, be sure to check out the two new videos to "Y'all Know How I Am" and "Too West Coast"!

Y'all Know How I Am featuring OMG, Doughboy, WC and Maylay


Too West Coast featuring WC and Maylay

Review: E-40 - Revenue Retrievin

Released on March 30th 2010, "Revenue Retrievin" is the second double disc of Bay Area legend E-40 after his 1998 effort "The Element Of Surprise". This one though, was released as two seperate discs: "The Day Shift" and "The Night Shift"

Since the parted company with Warner Bros. after his last album "The Ball Street Journal" he stated that he recorded over 60 tracks with his son Droop-E alone. Other producers on this LP include Rick Rock, Jazze Pha and Daywalk. It was obvious for him to give his fans a large amount of that now that he's back at the independent route and please them with nothing else but modern day mob music.

That's what this album is: A bass'd out, upgraded version of what "40 Water" always has done. His lyrics are way improved compared to his last 2-3 records and his flow is partially back at its weird "flamboastin" style. Many people claimed this to be "just another Hyphy record" but it's far more than that. The Hyphy topics are not important on this CD and although the music is filled with rattling basses, heavy synthesizers and freaky, sometimes psychedelic melodies, it feels more like the "old" E-40 is back.

He starts off with "Back In Business" and proves that he hasn't lost anything.
"In order to do some right you gotta do some wrong / Got hella shit goin on / The dusty, the dirty, the smirk / I ain't paranoid I am prepared I ain't nervous / When you cookin birdies in the kitchen / Can't be slippin like a transmission gotta be on your peezin toes / It's hard to make a honest livin when your kids ain't got no clothes"
The beat is somehow like the definition of a subwoofer and comes dangerous with the sample. Droop-E did a major job on this one.

I can't go into every track, that would take several hours, but what I have to say is that 40 even brought the guest appearences back to their best - maybe besides Snoop Dogg and Clyde Carson. Mistah F.A.B. is still able to show his unique and hilarious style on "Outta Control":
"40 the ambassador and Fabby is the prince / I shake your hands but hold up pimpin' please no finger prints / Bossy, flossy, groovyer than groovy / A walkin reality show a box office movie"
and Dem HoodStarz prove why they were considered a dynamic duo before Scoot Dog went to jail last year on the same track.

Ya Boy goes hard on "Wet" even though he still claims himself a rockstar but you can't deny lines like "Say we ain't the dopest, nigga whatchu smokin? / Gotta be da sherm, if it ain't money then it's not in my concern / Money to blow, matter fact money to burn / See her money is mine but my money ain't hers" and he handles a hell of a hook on the psycho-like gangsta track "Knock 'Em Down Music". That is the track where even Turf Talk can shine with his weird-as-never flow and insane sounding voice as he raps:
"He was a friend of mine, then he changed up / He used to be a Crip, now we flamed up / They say I'm loco, crazy, a lunatic / Serve these monkeys with the whole banana clique" (I should post the whole verse but I go with this only). Cousin Fik has two nice appearences on both track as well.

San Quinn may have a strange voice but his lines on the minimalistic-electric "Power Up" are sharper than ever: "Energy of the Hennessey / I spit H1N1, you'll never be as sick as me / ... / If I had a piss test it'd put me in the penetentiary".
Keak Da Sneak is stupid on this track but yet again in a positive way.

E-40's cousin B-Legit "makes love to the block and kisses the corner" on "I Get Down" which sounds crumbling and droning, just typical for a nice Droop-E production.
Too $hort has a funny as always verse on "Bitch" which contains the obvious sample but sounds just as relevant as you need. "You see the shadows, you hear the sounds, but you don't do nothing you just turn back around like a bitch / feelings hurt ready to cry, you can't believe everything she said was a lie"
Even though I just quoted a lot of lines (and I still haven't mentioned 40's best efforts) there are way more lyrical experiences worth checking for and this is just an example of how entertaining this album is. Musically you'll find a lot of which you think it might sound similar in the first place, but you'll recognize it's anything but a monotonous record. E-40's delivery helps much to avoid such an impression. I'm going to list a few of his funniest lines below:

"I'm a boss, but I drink like Hasselhoff" (Power Up)
"I'm feeling like I'm 'posed to be and sober is my enemy, Bailey's and Landy - that's the remedy / Money and power that's a friend of me / Chain lickin like a Mini-Me / Campaignin like a Kennedy / They ain't got no idea where this finna be" (Wet)
"Sometimes I wonder was I planned, maybe / Or was I a accident mayne, a oops-baby" (Streets Keep Callin Me -> awsome hook by Krizz Kaliko)
"I got a million dollar mouthpiece, she got a million dollar vagina / I throw a bitch in the sky and break her 'fore she hits the ground / They call me send-a-bun, send a snow bunny just like a tax" (Attention)
He takes a little shot on the new generation as well:
"I take it back to the 80's when I was servin your momma, the reason why you're crack babies / Which I don't really like to brag about, I had style before they brought 'swagger' out" (Dem Boyz)

This album is not only heavy bass 'bay slap' music, you can also find more instrumental kind of songs. A very appropriate example would be "Let Go And Let God" which is a family collaboration between soul singer Lenny Williams (E-40's father), 40 himself and his son Droop-E on the boards.

This double album is a really great entertainment and the music doesn't sound rushed even though you get so much of it (2:42h of music - no (!) skits, not even an intro or outro). Plus the music is very proper recorded and mixed, it requires a good stereo to unfold its true value. Support the ambassador of the Bay, buy "Revenue Retrievin".

Another 2010 preview

In my last post I presented some upcoming records of famous west coast artists, so you can consider this post as being part 2 of it.

Cypress Hill signed to Priority Records last month, the resurrected label whose chairman is no other than Snoop Dogg. Their new single "Armada Latina" features Pitbull and Marc Anthony and is about to get huge rotation with its feelgood vibe and hispanic hook. The group's new album is called "Rise Up" and will be released on April 20 and will feature the likes of Evidence (Dilated Peoples), Young De, Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) and Alchemist among others.

Brotha Lynch Hung just released his new album "Dinner And A Movie" on Strange Music. The Sacramento rapper went back to his earlier style of music as you can hear on his two singles "I Plotted (My Next Murder)" and "Meat". You can check the official videos to both singles by clicking on the title.

Living Legends member Murs revealed plans to release a series of 10 albums this year, one album per month for the rest of the year. He stated that he got too much unreleased material from the record process of his last solo album "Murs For President" which was released on Warner Bros. records. His first release will be out tomorrow, March 30th and is called "ForNever". This will be another 9th Wonder and Murs collaboration album and is about to sound just as good as the prior releases of the duo.

When it comes to funk influenced hip hop and crazy hooks you can't forget about the former Ruthless and Doggystyle records member Kokane aka Mr. Kane. His new album "Gimme All Mine" is about to drop on the first day in June and will feature appearences of Above The Law and Tha Chill (Compton's Most Wanted). This sounds like the perfect mixture for another funky Kokane release. The first single is produced by Tha Chill and goes with the title "Twilight Zone". The video was directed by Dah Dah and looks very promising.

Be on the lookout for more information soon.

Si-Chill

E-40 is "The Server" in new video

The ambassador of the bay is back with his new single "The Server" off his upcoming double disc "Revenue Retreivin': The Day Shift / The Night Shift". E-40 recorded about 60 songs within the last year as his son Droop-E revealed in a current interview with baycentrik.com (read/listen here). The album is set to drop on March 30 via Sick Wid It / EMI records.

Check the video below:

Flashback Music: Part III - Coco Loc, Shorty K & Bad Azz "I Like To Roll"

Flashback Music is back. This time I chose a track off one of the best Gangsta Rap compilations ever recorded, the classic "19th Street LBC" compilation. Coco Loc, Shorty K and Snoop Dogg's cousin Bad Azz "Like To Roll" through Long Beach on this one.



Enjoy the music and remember the time...

New Roscoe album "Philaphornia 2: Tha Philly Fanatic"

West Coast rapper Roscoe just released a new album on dubcnn.com for free download. It is a mix of older, unreleased tracks and new recorded songs. The album features artists like Tha Dogg Pound, B-Real (Cypress Hill), Xzibit, Soopafly and a few more.


You download it here.

Enjoy the album, that's straight west coast gangsta rap we're used from Young Roscoe.


Si-Chill

Tha Dogg Pound - Ya'll Know What I'm Doin' ft. Turf Talk [Video]

Tha Dogg Pound is back with the video of their new single "Ya'll Know What I'm Doin'" which features Turf Talk and is off their upcoming album "100 Wayz".



The song has potential, factoring in that it sounds very similar to a DPG sound which we haven't heard for a minute now, with a funky and "farty" bass and the typical whining lead instrument. Having Turf Talk featured on it, gives this song a modern touch though with kinda hyphy-lyrics like "Gas, Break, Dip, Drop...". As if his voice isn't strange itself, Turf Talk additionally tries to rap in a crooked way on this one. That sounds weird at first but you just have to get used to it.

The video is low-budget and street-tied, sometimes switching to strip-club scenes. It's definitely not special or innovative in any way, you just see the protagonists drink, smoke and have some fun in front of the camera. Maybe the most particular thing of it is the haircut (!) of Turf Talk, strongly reminding me of the Lady Of Rage. Weather on purpose or not, it fits to the whole arrangement of the song, taking you back a little bit into some older DPG sound of the "Dillinger And Young Gotti" era, before they split in 2002.

"100 Wayz" will be entirely produced by Daz Dillinger himself and is supposed to drop in the first quarter of 2009.

Si-Chill


source: dubcnn.com